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Weekend recap:
On Friday, the Washington Post reported that DHS has been recording and analyzing messages Portland protesters sent on Telegram. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/dhs-analyzed-protester-communications-raising-questions-about-previous-statements-by-senior-department-official/2020/07/31/313163c6-d359-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-...
On Friday, the Washington Post reported that DHS has been recording and analyzing messages Portland protesters sent on Telegram. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/dhs-analyzed-protester-communications-raising-questions-about-previous-statements-by-senior-department-official/2020/07/31/313163c6-d359-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-...
The Washington Post also reports "The Department of Homeland Security is keeping more than 130 federal agents stationed near the courthouse as a “quick reaction force,” in case protests turn violent again, according to an internal DHS document" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/calm-returns-to-portland-as-federal-agents-withdraw/2020/07/31/3606b35a-d364-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...
Downtown protests were calmer than they have been in some time, in part because of smaller crowds but also law enforcement have mostly stayed out of sight (keep reading, the next part is important)
https://pdx.recompilermag.com/2020/07/31/protests-for-july-31/
https://pdx.recompilermag.com/2020/07/3... href=" https://pdx.recompilermag.com/2020/08/01/protests-for-august-1/
https://pdx.recompilermag.com/2020/08/0... href=" https://pdx.recompilermag.com/2020/08/02/protests-for-august-2/">https://pdx.recompilermag.com/2020/08/0...
https://pdx.recompilermag.com/2020/07/31/protests-for-july-31/
On Saturday night, protesters marched to the East Multnomah County Sheriffs Office, which is also a police precinct. After a short period of chanting and projecting lights onto the building, the LRAD pulled up and announced it was an unlawful assembly https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1289787750460219392">https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/...
The police then forced this group of non-violent protesters away from the building. https://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1289791617595891713">https://twitter.com/PDocument...
Protesters were attacked for not moving fast enough https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1289792288533577729">https://twitter.com/45thabsur...
The police pursued these non-violent protesters through the neighborhood https://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1289798109422161925">https://twitter.com/PDocument...
Portland police attacked reporters with mace https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1289807143961427970">https://twitter.com/hungrybow...
The police punctured the tires of a reporter& #39;s car while they were attempting to leave https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1289793915332079617">https://twitter.com/hungrybow...
So what does PPB say about this, and what are several papers reprinting?
"People continued to throw glass and plastic bottles at police. People with "press" written on their outer garments repeatedly threw objects at officers."
"People continued to throw glass and plastic bottles at police. People with "press" written on their outer garments repeatedly threw objects at officers."
"Near East Burnside and Southeast 44th Avenue a person moved a car slowly in front of police, interfering with their attempts to safely move people out of the road. To remove the hazard the car presented, Portland Police deflated its tires and passed it by."
"Again people with "press" written on their outer garments were among those throwing objects at police."
These are lies, and we have a duty to call them out as such. A group of people should be able to stand outside a police precinct and yell at the cops without being assaulted.
These are lies, and we have a duty to call them out as such. A group of people should be able to stand outside a police precinct and yell at the cops without being assaulted.
Even if people were throwing items as described, it wouldn& #39;t justify these assaults. If anyone but a police officer did it, we would understand these actions to be criminal. How could we accept any excuse now?
